Fentanyl is the leading cause of drug overdose deaths in the United States where the epidemic is fueled by ... Americans have died of synthetic opioid overdoses over the past decade, with millions ...

It plots iterations of a chart, and on its x-axis floats the disembodied ... The earliest recorded "opioid epidemic" in the United States dates back to the nineteenth century, when rapid ...

But as soon as he steps across the street to his outpatient addiction clinic, he complains, he is barred from doing so by federal regulations. Methadone rules are “very, very silly right now”, he ...

Philly’s opioid addiction crisis is constantly evolving. Local health care workers and researchers explain some of the latest ...

What started as a medical solution for pain management spiraled into a nationwide addiction crisis. Drugs like OxyContin, ...

At issue: whether opioid settlement money — paid by health care companies that were sued for fueling the opioid crisis and meant to help states abate addiction — should be funneled to two ...

Photo Credit: Victor Moussa / Shutterstock The United States has been battling an ... of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency in 2017.

The opioid epidemic in the US has not gone away. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the current wave of opioid overdoses began in 2013 and deaths from opioids ...